Kushner was also with Trump in Bedminster, New Jersey, during a weekend in early May when Trump put together a draft letter laying out the reasons he wanted to fire Comey.

He never sent it – White House counsel Don McGahn had advised him against doing so – but he fired Comey days later, ultimately leading to Mueller’s appointment as special counsel.

The Vanity Fair report also said that Trump was becoming frustrated with Kushner’s political advice, including that Trump back Luther Strange in the runoff for the GOP nomination for a US Senate seat in Alabama.

Strange lost the nomination to Roy Moore, who is now in an increasingly competitive race against Democrat Doug Jones to fill the seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.